Overworked Nursing Home Employees Rush Or Miss Essential Care Duties: Study
A new study warns that overworked nursing home employees often miss or rush essential care duties, resulting in nursing home neglect.…
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A new study warns that overworked nursing home employees often miss or rush essential care duties, resulting in nursing home neglect.…
A new study finds that the federal Nursing Home Compare website is underreporting falls at facilities nationwide.…
Federal regulators will begin adding special icons on the CMS Nursing Home Compare website to help families identify which facilities have been cited for incidents of nursing home abuse and neglect.…
New York has agreed to pay $6 million to the families of three women who say they suffered years of abuse and neglect, including physical assaults, at a state-run nursing home.…
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities are emerging as a major vector for the spread of drug-resistant candida auris infections, due to neglect and understaffing, according to a new report.…
Many Florida nursing homes may not be prepared for this hurricane season two years after a number of deaths, even as the first monster storm bears down on the coast.…
A new study finds that dementia patients treated at home may be more prone to injury and to suffer from unmet medical needs.…
A new report warns that Pennsylvania is ill-prepared for the coming influx of nursing home residents, which may leave them vulnerable to neglect and abuse.…
A new study finds that residents in nursing homes with high numbers of patients with serious mental illness face a higher chance of adverse health events, even if they are not mentally ill themselves.…
Patients transitioning from hospitals to nursing homes face an increased risk of complications and adverse events, according to the findings of a new study.…